the
will of God, rose before him and demanded all things.

As drowning men are said to have pass in review the events of a
lifetime before them, so in a moment's time the strategic elements of
his life appeared before him, and the finger of God pressed the most
sensitive points in his nature. He pointed to the counting room of the
keen business man, and Hubert saw himself poor for the Kingdom of God's
sake. He pointed to the beautiful home and its inmates, and he saw
himself homeless, having "hated" father and mother and sister--ah,
sharpest pang of all!--for the sake of discipleship to the sorrowful
Son of Man. An invisible attraction drew him after Him, and with ashen
lips but with fixed heart Hubert Gray took up his cross.

"I am willing to do Thy will," he said. "Only let me know the
teaching."

The immediate result of Hubert's work of faith cannot be written. It
is incommunicable. One may point to after effects in a life
transformed, but of that supernatural witness which comes to men's
souls, stamping the words of God as very truth indeed, no description
can be given. As jealously guarded as the crown jewels in the Tower of
London is the secret of the Lord which is revealed or hidden at His
will. To the foolish one who "in his heart" says, "There is no God,"
no glorious revelation comes; and often even the patent fact of His
divine creatorship is not observed. But, given a hungry soul, he shall
be filled with good things. And the Spirit waits to charge with
electric certainty the teaching of God's truth to the man who in
meekness adjusts himself to it.

Cold and colorless glows the transparent prism in the shadow. But let
the sun shine through it, and lo! it is alive with all the colors of
glory and beauty. So the sunlight shone in the laboratory of Hubert
Gray that night and lit up with many rays of refracted glory the
doctrine of Jesus Christ. Light focused itself upon the Person, and
Hubert saw, as years of painful study would not have taught him without
that light, the mysterious merging of his own identity with His; saw
mistily, what afterward he should discern more clearly, his own
worthless, sinful life vanished in the dying of the One "lifted up";
saw radiantly his own triumph and everlasting life together with the
living Christ. To the secret abode where lives are "hid with Christ in
God," he came and saw. The unspeakable gladness of the revelation
turned the rugged cross into a crown